Dashboard Support
AssigneeKirchhoff Automotive Deutschland GmbH
InventorJosef Bartzik
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Abstract
A dashboard support for a motor vehicle with at least two support parts which follow the longitudinal extent of the dashboard support and are arranged to overlap one another with their mutually facing end portions. A first support part, in its overlapping portion, has a contact seat against which the second support part rests with its connecting portion provided by the overlapping arrangement with its lateral surface and is materially bonded to the first support part. The contact seat of the first support part is provided by an embossing which is designed as a negative structure in relation to the first support part.
Claims16
1-15. (canceled)
A dashboard support for a motor vehicle, comprising:
- a first support part and a second support part which follow a longitudinal extent of the dashboard support and are arranged to overlap one another with mutually facing end portions,
- wherein the first support part, in an overlapping end portion thereof, has a contact seat against which a connecting portion of the second support part rests and is connected to the first support part in a materially bonded manner,
- wherein the contact seat of the first support part is provided by an embossing which is formed as a negative structure in relation to the first support part directed towards an interior of the first support part, and which reinforces the first support part in the manner of a bead, and
- wherein the connecting portion of the second support part engaging in the embossing rests with a lateral surface on an outer side of the embossing.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.